Women leaders in Nigeria and Sierra Leone will be supported by the African Women Leaders Project (AWLP) that was officially launched on February 15, 2007 by the Club of Madrid.
http://www.clubmadrid.org/cmadrid/index.php?id=931 Madrid, February 15, 2007.- The Club of Madrid has launched today the African Women Leaders Project (AWLP), which will provide support to high-level women leaders in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and a third country still to be determined. This 18-month initiative, undertaken with funding from the European Commission’s Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, will contribute to the strengthening of female political leadership and, in the long-term, to greater public confidence in women political leaders and increased women’s political participation. This project seeks to provide women political leaders new resources and skills to strengthen political leadership; identify and share best practices from the region and internationally on increasing women’s political participation, including gender quotas and other affirmative action policies; facilitate the sharing of experiences and dialogue between national women parliamentarians and outstanding women political leaders in Africa and throughout the world; establish high-level, specialized networks among reform-minded leaders in the region and internationally, to enable the sharing of knowledge and resources; promote greater gender awareness on the obstacles to women’s political participation and the centrality of equal political participation for a functioning democracy; and increase women's political participation in target countries through devising relevant advocacy strategies and the identification of feasible policy options.
Women leaders in Nigeria and Sierra Leone will be supported by the African Women Leaders Project (AWLP) that was officially launched on February 15, 2007 by the Club of Madrid.
http://www.clubmadrid.org/cmadrid/index.php?id=931 Madrid, February 15, 2007.- The Club of Madrid has launched today the African Women Leaders Project (AWLP), which will provide support to high-level women leaders in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and a third country still to be determined. This 18-month initiative, undertaken with funding from the European Commission’s Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, will contribute to the strengthening of female political leadership and, in the long-term, to greater public confidence in women political leaders and increased women’s political participation. This project seeks to provide women political leaders new resources and skills to strengthen political leadership; identify and share best practices from the region and internationally on increasing women’s political participation, including gender quotas and other affirmative action policies; facilitate the sharing of experiences and dialogue between national women parliamentarians and outstanding women political leaders in Africa and throughout the world; establish high-level, specialized networks among reform-minded leaders in the region and internationally, to enable the sharing of knowledge and resources; promote greater gender awareness on the obstacles to women’s political participation and the centrality of equal political participation for a functioning democracy; and increase women's political participation in target countries through devising relevant advocacy strategies and the identification of feasible policy options.